4 thoughts on - Shared folders with CentOS-7 guest in VMware-10 using open-vm-tools

• Eero Volotinen writes:

  I get:

  modprobe: FATAL: Module vmhgfs not found:

  Is it supposed to be shipped with open-vm-tools?

  I haven’t been able to re-compile the vmware tools myself.

  Thanks

  Bob

• Eero Volotinen writes:

  under open-vm-tools, the only module I know about is vmtoolsd and it is running:

  [root@imp yum.repos.d]# systemctl status vmtoolsd vmtoolsd.service – Service for virtual machines hosted on VMware
  Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/vmtoolsd.service; enabled)
  Active: active (running) since Thu 2015-08-06 18:49:02 AEST; 3 days ago
  Docs: http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/about.php Main PID: 806 (vmtoolsd)
  CGroup: /system.slice/vmtoolsd.service
  └─806 /usr/bin/vmtoolsd

  open-vm-tools appears to know about hgfs as it has an eponymous file:

  /usr/lib64/open-vm-tools/plugins/common/libhgfsServer.so

  and:

  [root@imp yum.repos.d]# /usr/bin/vmware-hgfsclient shared

  Is there something else I need to do to get this working?

  Thanks

  Bob

• Bob Hepple writes:

  running:

  Arghhh! Of course vmtoolsd is not a module, it’s a service! Here are the modules that could be something to do with vmware:

  [root@imp ~]# lsmod |grep vm vmw_balloon 13415 0
  vmw_vmci 67106 0
  vmwgfx 179730 2
  drm_kms_helper 98226 1 vmwgfx ttm 93488 1 vmwgfx drm 311588 5 ttm,drm_kms_helper,vmwgfx

  Cheers

  Bob

• Bob Hepple writes:

  Just to report my resolution of this one – no-one has been able to report success with vmware-tools with VMware-10, Windows-7 host, CentOS-7 guest so far.

  So I tried CentOS-6.7 and all is well after installing vmware-tools from the tarball provided by vmware – screen resolution, auto-sensing and shared folder.

  CentOS-6.7 is fine for me and I’ll be living there instead of the nightmare desktop provided by the employer.

  Cheers

  Bob